Etzel then began to weep; sorely they mourned
both kin and liegemen. Their mickle honors lay there low in death; the
courtiers all had grief and drearihead. The king's high feast had ended
now in woe, as joy doth ever end in sorrow at the last. I cannot tell
you, that which happed thereafter, save that knights and ladies and
noble squires were seen to weep for the death of loving kinsmen. The
tale hath here an end. This is the Nibelungs' fall. (2) (3)

ENDNOTES:
(1) "Waskstone", see Adventure XXXV, note 2.
(2) "Fall". The word "not", translated here "fall", means
really 'disaster', but as this word is not in keeping with
the style, "fall" has been chosen as preferable to 'need',
used by some translators. The MS. C has here "liet" instead
of "not" of A and B.
(3) The "Nibelungenlied" is continued by the so-called "Klage",
a poem written in short rhyming couplets. As the name
indicates, it describes the lamentations of the survivors
over the dead. The praises of each warrior are sung and a
messenger dispatched to acquaint Gorelind, Uta, and Brunhild
with the sad end of their kinsmen. It closes with
Dietrich's departure from Etzel's court and his return home.
Although in one sense a continuation of our poem, the
"Klage" is an independent work of no great merit, being
excessively tedious with its constant repetitions. A
reprint and a full account of it will be found in Piper's
edition of our poem, vol. I.

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